asakiyume: (miroku)
asakiyume ([personal profile] asakiyume) wrote in [personal profile] sovay 2021-01-14 01:58 pm (UTC)

the medium article

That Medium article is funny, sharp, and depressing. On a tangential note, the last realization (I need to accept ... that my husband is more than capable [of taking care of the kids]) is important: one does actually need to be willing to relinquish that task--in other words, you can't hold on to (or be made to feel obliged to hold on to) the notion that child care is something that only you, by virtue of your gonads, can do. I've known women who were resentful of having to do everything but wouldn't let their male partners step up. And I know lots of men who actually do enjoy the business of child care--who really are fine with changing diapers, wiping messy faces, picking up toys, or at least as much as any woman is (because those things are just tedious for anyone, after a point)--but if given a message that they're doing a terrible job, oh let me do that I'm faster, only I know how to get her to go to sleep etc etc of course will back off. I think one thing that's impressive about Nora at the end is that she *is* consciously relinquishing those duties.

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